Execution Books

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Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,264 members
304 reviews
4
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy
2,401 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
4
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,804 members
516 reviews
4.1
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
41,919 members
491 reviews
3.9
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The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,189 members
50 reviews
4
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
by Chris McChesney
1,128 members
6 reviews
4.1
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The Book of Daniel: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
1,674 members
26 reviews
3.8
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,963 members
120 reviews
4
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,686 members
578 reviews
3.9
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The Reckoning
by John Grisham
2,847 members
97 reviews
½ 3.5
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A Handbook on Hanging
by Charles Duff
241 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
6,705 members
178 reviews
3.8
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Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo
1,852 members
65 reviews
4.1
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice
by Geoffrey Abbott
142 members
4 reviews
3.1
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,969 members
935 reviews
½ 4.3
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Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,233 members
55 reviews
3.9
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The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution
by Geoffrey Abbott
89 members
1 review
4.1
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,847 members
267 reviews
4
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The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
16,707 members
387 reviews
3.9
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Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
8,081 members
378 reviews
½ 4.3
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One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
3,046 members
71 reviews
3.9
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Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue
2,627 members
93 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
1,426 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
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Shot in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore
767 members
24 reviews
4.2
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
by David Malouf
392 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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Newes from the Dead
by Mary Hooper
367 members
27 reviews
3.8
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Prayers the Devil Answers
by Sharyn McCrumb
154 members
17 reviews
½ 3.4
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Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
by Howard Engel
128 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Old Time Punishments
by William Andrews
99 members
½ 3.7
34
Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America
by Frederick Drimmer
65 members
3.8
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Hangmen of England: History of Execution from Jack Ketch to Albert Pierrepoint
by Brian Bailey
38 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
57,957 members
1,372 reviews
4.2
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,581 members
264 reviews
3.8
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The Green Mile
by Stephen King
14,247 members
176 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
9,997 members
211 reviews
4
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The Chamber
by John Grisham
9,542 members
70 reviews
½ 3.5
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
7,656 members
43 reviews
4.1
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
6,231 members
108 reviews
3.9
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Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult
5,452 members
165 reviews
3.8
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The Last Mile
by David Baldacci
2,586 members
81 reviews
4
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
2,285 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Five Chinese Brothers
by Claire Huchet Bishop
2,123 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Dawn
by Élie Wiesel
2,031 members
30 reviews
3.8
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
by Sharyn McCrumb
965 members
22 reviews
3.8
49
The Thin Executioner
by Darren Shan
404 members
17 reviews
3.9
50
The London Hanged
by Peter Linebaugh
291 members
4 reviews
4.2
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Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
by Mark Regan Essig
258 members
1 review
3.9
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For Sake of Example
by Anthony Babington
70 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
by Austin Sarat
42 members
1 review
4
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,464 members
698 reviews
4
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We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
9,946 members
244 reviews
3.8
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,367 members
52 reviews
3.9
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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
3,176 members
29 reviews
4
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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
3,000 members
60 reviews
½ 3.4
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
2,847 members
41 reviews
4.1
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by Peter F. Drucker
2,261 members
21 reviews
4.1
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The Boy Who Dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
1,933 members
89 reviews
4
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Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks
1,830 members
33 reviews
3.9
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Gallows Thief
by Bernard Cornwell
1,320 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi
1,263 members
43 reviews
3.9
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The Vagrants
by Yiyun Li
913 members
44 reviews
3.9
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King Charles II
by Antonia Fraser
876 members
9 reviews
4
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox
584 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
by Jill Lepore
506 members
5 reviews
3.9
70
The Autobiography of an Execution
by David R. Dow
288 members
21 reviews
4.2
71
Joe Hill
by Wallace Stegner
284 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
72
Billy
by Albert French
239 members
8 reviews
3.9
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Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
by Anne Sebba
230 members
14 reviews
4
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
by Larry Bossidy
224 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
75
Rambo [2008 film]
by Sylvester Stallone
211 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
76
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England
by Douglas Hay
196 members
3 reviews
4.1
77
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
by Thomas Ott
150 members
8 reviews
4.1
78
The Nine Days Queen
by Karleen Bradford
148 members
1 review
3.8
79
Traitors of the Tower
by Alison Weir
141 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Execution of Private Slovik
by William Bradford Huie
133 members
6 reviews
4
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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
by E. P. Evans
101 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered: the story of execution through the ages
by Jonathan J. Moore
78 members
½ 4.4
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The Molly Maguires
by Anthony Bimba
72 members
2 reviews
2.9
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Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
by Nigel Cawthorne
69 members
½ 3.4
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The Last Execution
by Jesper Wung-Sung
59 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Execution Protocol: Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry
by Stephen Trombley
54 members
½ 3.4
88
The Thin Yellow Line
by William Moore
52 members
½ 3.7
89
Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree
by Alan Brooke
47 members
½ 3.5
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The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner
by Syd Dernley
29 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
121,925 members
1,079 reviews
½ 4.4
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,347 members
272 reviews
3.8
94
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
15,216 members
62 reviews
4
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The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,743 members
144 reviews
3.9
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,571 members
566 reviews
½ 4.3
97
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,102 members
180 reviews
4.2
98
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
8,611 members
147 reviews
3.9
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,611 members
177 reviews
4.2
100
The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius
6,097 members
49 reviews
3.9